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Headquarters of the Somerville Historical Society 

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ANDBOOK OF THE ^ ^ 
HISTORIC FESTIVAL IN 
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CHUSETTS, NOVEMBER 
I 28, 29, 30, DECEMBER I, 
' 2, AND 3, MDCCCXCVm ^ 

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Somerville Historical Society 

INCORPORATED 1898 



PRESIDENT 
CHARLES D. ELLIOT 

VICE-PRESIDENTS 
JOHN F. AVER ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS 

FREDERICK W. PARKER 

RECORDING SECRETARY 
GEORGE F. LORING 

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 
MRS, JOHN F. AVER 

TREASURER 
FREDERIC W. STONE 

LIBRARIAN AND CURATOR 
HOWARD DAWSON 

COUNCIL 
CHARLES D. ELLIOT 
JOHN F. AYER ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS 

FREDERICK W. PARKER GEORGE F. LORING 
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Mrs. Eunice M. Gilmore 

TREASURER 
James F. Beard 

ADVERTISING 
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TICKETS 

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PRINTING 

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LITERARY COMMITTEE 

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F. H. Porter 



MUSIC 
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Mrs. Clara E. White 



C. Scott White 
F. A. Breck 

E. C. Foss 

F. A. Teele 
Howard Dawson 
W. E, Daniels 
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Miss Fannie Glines 
Miss Edith Johnson 
Miss Mary E, Bradford 
Miss Blanche Bradford 



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Mrs. Edw. Glines 
Mrs. J. E. Hale 
Howard A. Gilson 
Fred. W. Cook 
Chas. C. Farrington 
Miss Elsie S. Lake 
Miss Annette E. Locke 
Mrs. Harriet A. Tilden 
Miss Lillian Glazier 
Miss Gerta M. Colby 
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Akers, Winfred C. 


Armstrong, Mrs. H. B. 


Aldrich^ Mrs, Harrison 


Ayer, John F. 


Allen, Hannah J. 


Ayer, Mrs. John F. 


Bailey, Ernest W. 


Boyer, Francis H. 


Barber, William M. 


Bradford, Harry P. i 


Barber, William L. 


Brainard, Charles E. 


Battelle, Mrs. Sarah J. 


Brigham, William E. 


Baxter, George L. 


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Brine, Hannah S. 


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Bennett, Edwin C. 


Brine, William P. 


Bennett, Dana W. 


Brooks, Elbridge S. 


Berry, William H. 


Brooks, Mrs. Elbridge S. 


Blodgett, Mrs. E. 


Brown, Charles H. 


Booth, Edward C. 


Bruce, George A. 


Bourne, Belding B. D. 


Butler, J. H. 


Bowman, Selwyn Z* 


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Carpenter, Allen F. 


Cohen, James 


Carpenter, Caroline S. 


Cole, Adalbert E. 


Carr, Mrs. L. Emily 


Colman, Charles W. 


Carvill, Alphonzo H. 


Connor, Simon 


Chamberlain, Russell T. 


Cox, Edward 


Chamberlain, Mrs. Harriet A. 


Cox, Edward S. 


Chase, Daniel E. 


Cox, Mrs. Emma A. 


Clark, Elijah C. 


Cutler, Alfred M. 
Cutler, James R. 


Clark, Herbert L. 


Clarke, Wilbur S. 


Cutter, Charles K. 



Daniels, Mrs. W. E. 
Darling, Samuel C. 
Davlin, James F. 
Dawson, Howard 
Dickerman, Frank E. 
Dickerman, Mrs, Frank E. 
Dickerman, George H, 

Edmands, Albert W. 
Elliot, Charles D. 

Farrington, Charles C. 
Fitz, Harriet A. 
Fleischner, Otto 
Fletcher, William K. 
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Galpin, Barbara 
Getchell, Merle S. 
Giles, J. Frank 
Giles, Joseph J. 
Gilmore, Mrs. Eunice M. 
Gilson, Howard A. 

Hadley, Emma Prichard 
Haley, Mary A. 
Hall, John E. 
Hall, R. F. 
Harmer, J. T. 
Haven, Harry M. 
Haskell, Albert L. 
Hawes, Levi L. 
Hayden, Joseph O. 



Dickerman, Quincy E. 
Dickerman, Mrs. Quincy E. 
Dolbear, A. E. 
Doyle, Edward W. 
Draper, Sarah M. 
Durell, Mrs. Alma L. 

Elliot, Mrs. Emily J. 
Elliot, Mary E. 

Flint, Warren F. 
Flint, Mary B. 
Flitner, J. H. 
Foss, Sam Walter 
Frazar, Mae D. 

Gilson, Mary E. 
Gilson, Valentine E. 
Glines, Edward 
Gordon, George A. 
Graves, Henry C. 
Grover, Nelson H. 

Hayes, John S. (Deceased) 
Hayes, Mrs. Emma S. 
Heald, Helen E. 
Hemenway, Charles M. 
Hodgkins, William H. 
Hopkins, James R. 
Hubbard, Orrin C. 
Hunt, M. Agnes 



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Irish, Fred D. 

Johnson, Mrs. Ann E. 
Johnson, Edith 

Kaan, Frank W. 
Kendall, Henry A. 

Lake, Mrs. Alice E. 
Lake, Elsie S. 
Lapham, F. DeWitt 
Leighton, James H. 
Leighton, Mrs. L. Anna 
Lincoln, Charles P. 
Lincoln, Charles S. 

Mason, Seth 
Maynard, Mrs. Caroline 
Maynard, Mrs. E. A. 
Mentzer, Walter C. 

Newton, William M. 

Parker, Frederick W. 
Parker, Mrs. Frederick W. 
Perry, Albion A. 

Ralph, William H. 
Ralph, Mrs. Harriet A. 
Raymond, Francis H. 
Reed, Mrs. Clara B. 

Saknon, Stephen D. 
Samuels, E. B. 
Sargent, Aaron 



Ireland, George H. 

Jones, Melville D. 
Jones, William P. 

Kidder, Andrew M. 
Kidder, Arthur T. 

Lincoln, Williston 
Littlefield, George E. 
Littlefield, Samuel T. 
Loring, Ernest J. 
Loring, George F. 
Loring, Mrs. Sarah F. 
Luce, Robert 

Minot, Mrs. Harriet G. 
Mitchell, William P. 
Munroe, Arthur B. 



Nichols, G. Leslie 

Pillsbury, Luther B. 
Polsey, Chester A. 
Powers, Levi M. 

Robinson, Albert M. 
Robinson, Warren J. 
Rowell, Cromwell G. 
Rymes, Christopher E. 

Sawyer, Charles W. 
Sawyer, Walter S. 
Shepard, Charles I. 



Smith, Arthur A. 
Smith, Winthrop 
Southworth, G, A. 
Southworth, Mrs. G. A. 
Start, E. A. 
Stone, Frederic W. 
Stone, Lucy M. 

Tilden, Elmer E. 
Tilden,' Mrs. Elmer E. 
Tincker, Helen 
Titus, Anson 



Stone, Sara A. 
Story, Isaac 
Story, Isaac M. 
Sylvester, Amy B. 
Sylvester, Clara A. 
Sylvester, John E. 



Tufts, Albert C. 
Tufts, Francis 
Tufts, Martha 
Tufts, M. Alice 



Valentine, Herbert E. 
Veazie, William 
Vinal, Anna P. 
Vinal, Augusta S. 

Walker, Mrs. Mary E. 
Wade, Rufus R. 
Wadsworth, George M. 
Wallace, Mary E. 
Wallon, Louis A. 
Weld, William E. 
Wellington, J. Frank 
Wentworth, L. Roger 
Wentworth, Thomas S. 
West, Charles A. 
West, Mrs. Charles A. 
Whipple, George A. 
Whitcomb, Charles T. C. 



Vinal, Louise A. 
Vinal, Quincy A. 
Vincent, George I. 



White, J. Harvey 
White, Emory L. 
White, Mrs. Clara E. 
White, W. W. 
Whitney, James F. 
Wild, B. F. 
Wilder, Frances A. 
Willard, William J. 
Winship, Albert E. 
Wood, Mrs. Amelia 
Wood, Katherine W. 
Woods, James H. 
Woods, Mrs. Lucy A. 



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The 





Somerville Historical Society 



T Somerville^s Semi-Centennial in J 892, 
a committee was appointed to write a 
^ history of the city, another to collect 
its relics and antiquities, and a third 
to mark its historical localities. This 
was undoubtedly the first public interest shown in 
our local history. In these committees the subject 
of a society was discussed and its desirability recog- 
nized. Nothing was done, however, until June, 1897, 
when, in response to a call by Mr. John S. Hayes, 
the following gentlemen met at the Public Library 
^^to consider the advisability of organizing an Historical 
Society in this city " : John S. Hayes, John F. Ayer, 
W. E. Brigham, Howard Dawson, J. O. Hayden, F. 
W. Parker, George F. Loring, Aaron Sargent, Charles 
I. Shepard, Anson Titus, F. D. Cook, Frank W. Kaan, L. Roger 
Went worth, Edward C. Booth, and Charles D. Elliot. A society 
was organized soon after and the following officers elected, viz. : 
Hon. George A. Bruce, president; Charles D. Elliot, John F. Ayer, 
and Elbridge S. Brooks, vice-presidents; George F. Loring, recording 
secretary; George E. Littlefield, corresponding secretary; Frederic 
W. Stone, treasurer ; Howard Dawson, librarian and curator ; and 
Mrs. J. H. Leighton, Anson Titus, and L. Roger Wentworth, — 
with the other officers, — council. 



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The objects of the Society^ as stated in its circular, are "the 
collection and preservation of everything relating to the history and 
antiquities of Somerville, and incidentally of other places, and the 
diffusion of knowledge concerning them/' 

During the winter of 1897-98, lectures were given by Prof. 
John Fiske, upon "Gen. Charles Lee/' and by Rev. Anson Titus, 
upon "The New England Primer.'' 

Upon the removal of Mr. Bruce to Brookline, in August 
last, he resigned the presidency, and was succeeded by Mr. Elliot. 
Recognizing the need of a home for the Society, early in the 
season arrangements were made for the occupancy of the Oliver 
Tufts house, on Sycamore street, once the headquarters of Gen. 
Charles Lee, as the " Society's House," and soon after a Colonial 
Festival was unanimously agreed upon and various committees of 
arrangements appointed. The Society is now incorporated, and its 
membership has increased from a few at first to over two hundred, 
indicating a general interest in the city's history. One event has 
cast a shadow over its otherwise pleasant way — the death of its 
founder, Mr. John S. Hayes, whose name and memory it will 
always cherish. 

CHARLES D. ELLIOT. 




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Miles Standish 

And the Plymouth Explorers 

I ROB ABLY our shores were known and frequented 
by Europeans many years before any record was 
made, perhaps by Norse, English, or French, but 
the first positive mention we have of the footsteps 
of white men in this locality is in a ** Relation of 
our Voyage to the Massachusets (Indians) and what happened 
there ^^ (probably written by Edward Winslow), and to be found 
in ^^Mourt^s Relation or Journal of the Plantation at Plymouth,** 
printed in J 622. The journey was undertaken by Miles Standish 
and nine other white men, and three friendly Indians. One of 
the party may have been Gov. Bradford. They came into Boston 
Harbor, and after visiting other places, it is supposed they landed 
on the south shore of Mystic River, probably not far from its 
mouth, and traveled across Somerville territory into Medford. 
The following are extracts from this narrative: — 
^*It seemed good to the Company in general, that though 
the Massachusets had often threatened us (as we were informed), 
yet we should goe amongst them, partly to see the countrey. 



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partly to make Peace with them, and partly to procure their trucke. 
For these ends the Governours chose ten men, fit for the purpose, 
and sent Tisquantum and two other Salvages to bring us to speech 
with the people, and interpret for us. We set out about midnight, 
the tyde then serving us; we supposing it to be neerer then it is, 
thought to be there the next morning betimes, but it proved well 
neere twentie Leagues from New Plimmouth. We came into the 
bottome of the Bay, but being late wee anchored and lay in the 
Shallop, not having seene any of the people. . . . The next morning 
we put in for the shore. . . . The Sachim, or Governour of this 
place, is called Obbatinewat, and though he live in the bottome of 
the Massachuset bay, yet he is under Massasoyt. He used us very 
kindly; he told us he durst not then remaine in any setled place, 
for feare of the Tarentines. Also the Squa Sachim or Massachusets 
Queene was an enemy to him. We told him of divers Sachims 
that had acknowledged themselves to be King James his men, and 
if he also would submit himselfe, we would be his safegard from 
his enemies; which he did, and went along with us to bring us to 
the Squa Sachim. Againe we crossed the Bay, which is very large. 
. . . That night also we rid at Anchor aboord the Shallop. On 
the morrow we went ashore, all but two men, and marched in 
Arms up the Countrey. Having gone three myles, we came to a 
place where come had beene newly gathered, a house pulled downe, 
and the people gone. A myle from hence, Nanepashemet, their 
King in his lifetime, had lived. His house was not like others, but 
a scaffold was largely built, with pools and plancks some six foote 
from ground, and the house upon that, being situated on the top of 
a hill.^' This hill is supposed to have been in Medford, but the 
place where the ^'come had been newly gathered^' was probably 
in Somerville. 

CHARLES D. ELLIOT. 



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temple Hovse -Ten Hills • 

Governor John Winthrop 

And His Ten Hills Farm 

|OHN WINTHROP, first governor of Massachusetts, 
Somerville^s most eminent citizen, and oneT'of her 
earliest settlers, was the son of Adam and Anne 
Winthrop, and was born at Edwardston, near 
Groton, in England, January 12, 1587 (o. s.). His 
father was a lawyer and a justice, and was auditor' of Trinity 
and of St. John^s Colleges, and seems to have been prominent in 
affairs of church and state. In the town of Groton, Eng., stands, 
or did some thirty years ago, the Parish Church, where the Win- 
throp family worshiped, and outside its ancient walls is the tomb 
wherein lies the dust of the governor's father, mother, and grand- 
father; on it are the family name and coat-of-arms, and an inscrip- 
tion in Latin, which, translated, reads: — 

^* Heaven the Country, Christ the way. 
Here lies the body of Adam Winthrop, Esq., 
Son of Adam Winthrop, Esq., 
who were Patrons of this Church, 
and Lords of the Manor of Groton.^' 



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Of the early years and education of John Winthrop little is 
known. His father's journal, however, shows that he studied at 
Cambridge, Eng., entering Trinity College on December 8, 1602. 
At the age of seventeen years he was married. His father records 
the event as follows: — 

^'The xviiith day (of March, 1605) my soone was solemly 
contracted to Mary Foorth by Mr. Culverwell, minister,'^ etc. 

^*The xvith of Aprill he was married at Great Stambridge 
by Mr. Culverwell,^' etc. 

He was again married in December, 1615, to Thomasine 
Clopton, and a third time, in 1618, to Margaret Tyndal. From a 
perusal of their letters to him, many of which have been published, 
one must conclude that he drew most charming prizes in the lot- 
tery of matrimony, which fact is further shown by all that has 
been recorded concerning them. 

Winthrop was, by profession, a lawyer, and ^'one of the 
practicing attorneys of the court,'' and so continued until 1629, 
when he was made governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company, 
and immediately began to prepare for his voyage to America. On 
April 8, 1630, he bade farewell to the shores of old England, and 
after a stormy and eventful voyage arrived off the coast of New 
England June 12, landing first at Salem and afterwards removing 
to Charlestown, where he built a house, probably not very far 
from what is now City square. 

Sometime in 1631 the governor seems to have come to 
Somerville territory, and established himself at ''Ten Hills," where 
he evidently lived during the summers of many years, — Charles- 
town peninsula, and later Boston, being his winter residence. 

On July 4, 1631, ''The Governor built a bark at Mistick, 
which was launched this day, and called the 'Blessing of the 
Bay,'" and the Colony records state that 600 acres of land were 



granted him on September 6, 1631^ "near his house at Mystick/^ 
which he named ^^Ten Hills ^^; here he farmed, planted orchards, 
fished and hunted, and without doubt often held council with his 
many noble associates upon the momentous questions which con- 
fronted the infant colony. 

In 1634 Thomas Dudley was elected governor, but in 1637 
Winthrop was again chosen, and held the office until 1640; he 
was again re-elected in 1643, and yet again in 1646, being gov- 
ernor until his death in 1649. 

John Winthrop bore an unblemished character. His virtues 
are written in every line of life; he was cultured, yet unassuming; 
liberal, yet conservative; gentle, yet firm; politic, yet conscientious; 
modest, yet courageous; a chivalric gentleman and noble Christian, 
and his memory -^^^serves to be perpetuated on shaft of adamant 
in letters of purest gold. 

CHARLES D. ELLIOT. 



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Somerville 

In the Revolution 



|N the early days of the Revolution our hills and our 
valleys were the battlefields of liberty, whereon 
patriots camped, marched, and fought in their strug- 
gle for human equality. Briefly, we relate the story: 
Following ** a. long train of abuses and usurpations,^' 
in March, 1774, came the ^^Port Bill,^' closing the harbors of Bos- 
ton and Charlestown against all trade, export or import, and as 
effectually cementing the opposition of the provinces to the British 
crown; retaliatory measures culminated on September I, 1774, in 
an expedition for the capture of powder and cannon belonging to 
the colonists. Sailing in boats up the Mystic river, the British 
troops landed at Ten Hills farm, proceeded to the Powder House, 
and seizing all the powder stored there, sent it to ^'Castle 
WilHam/' 

From the Powder House a detachment marched to Cam- 
bridge Common, where it captured two cannon. The alarm 
spread in every direction, and was answered by militia, minute- 
men, and citizens from all parts of the state, in variously estimated 
numbers of from twenty to fifty thousand. 

They marched to Cambridge, and, surrounding the houses of 
the crown officers, forced them to resign their commissions. This 
first uprising of the Revolution was bloodless, but it foreshadowed 
a sanguinary conflict. 

Between this event and the battle of Lexington the days 
which came and went were crowded with preparations for the ex- 
pected contest. Learning that the British were again to march into 

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the country on the night of April 18, J 775, Dawes and Revere 
were sent on their midnight rides to spread the alarm, Dawes by- 
way of Roxbury, and Revere by way of Charlestown and Somer- 
ville. Of the latter Americans sweetest poet sings: — 

He ^* silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, 
Just as the moon rose over the bay. 
Where swinging: wide at her mooringfs lay 
The Somerset, British man-of-war, 
A phantom ship, with each mast and spar 
Across the moon like a prison bar, 
And a huge black hulk, that was magnified 
By its own reflection in the tide/*] 

Passing Charlestown Neck, Revere galloped up Washington 
street to where the old gibbet used to be, near the present Charles- 
town and Somerville line; there, by the moonlight, he perceived 
two British officers under a tree waiting to intercept him; pur- 
sued, he fled back to the neck, and thence over Broadway and 
Winter Hill, through Medford and Arlington to Lexington and 
Concord, arousing the minutemen as he went. 

**The fate of a nation was riding that night. 
And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, 
Kindled the land into flame with its heat/* 

Then came the battles of the J 9th, beginning in Lexington 
and Concord and ending in Somerville. Two lights had gleamed 
from the belfry tower the night before; the British had gone by 
water. Crossing ''Back Bay,'' they landed at East Cambridge, 
near the present Registry of Deeds, skirted the marshes to avoid 
observation, and emerged through by-ways into Somerville, proba- 
bly near the junction of Washington and Prospect streets; whence 
they followed what are now Bow street, Somerville avenue. Elm 
street, , and Massachusetts avenue to the towns beyond ; they 

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marched silently, halting for water in two places, at least, one on 
Bow and one on Elm street. 

In their disastrous flight they returned through Somerville, 
by way of Beech street, at whose junction with Elm street a sharp 
skirmish occurred ; thence they retreated through Union square and 
Washington street to Charlestown, skirmishing all along the route, 
several British soldiers being killed, and one minuteman, James 
Miller. 

The environs of Boston now became a great military camp, 
which soon began to be fortified, one of the earliest works being 
thrown up just east of Union square, and others at Cambridge. 
On June 15th the Committee of Safety recommended the seizure 
and fortifying of Bunker Hill, which led to the battle of the 1 7th. 
Over our roads that day streamed troops marching to reinforce 
Putnam and Prescott at Bunker Hill; and near Winter Hill and 
Union square were massed reserves, waiting a call to the field of 
battle. 

On Asylum Hill was the artillery of Major Gridley, which 
took part in the conflict; and east of this hill British gunboats lay, 
and rained their shrieking shell over the reinforcements crossing 
the neck and helpless families escaping from their smoldering 
homes. Horsemen galloped to and fro, carrying orders or urging 
on the troops, and saddest of all these exciting scenes through our 
streets, borne from the battlefield, came the wounded and dying. 
And at the close of day came a defiant army retreating from a 
victory gained on a field that was lost. * 

All this our city saw, and on the morrow it saw that army 
marshalled on Prospect Hill, throwing up its lines of defense, as it 
had at Bunker Hill, and awaiting the attack which never came. 

These works of Putnam's on Prospect Hill were the begin- 
ning of that siege which held the British at bay for nine months, 

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and drove them from Boston. From Prospect, Winter, Convent, 
and Asylum Hills roared war^s artillery, and upon these devoted 
eminences British cannon and mortars hurled their shot and explod- 
ing shell. For a whole year our city knew little else than the din 
and horrors of war. 

From the summer of 1776 to the autumn of 1777, days of 
peace succeeded those of contest, but November, J 777, saw our ter- 
ritory again a great camp, this time of two armies, friend and foe, 
here being quartered the British and Hessian prisoners captured at 
Saratoga, and the American army which guarded them; and here 
the prisoners remained until November, 1778, one year, complain- 
ing, impatient, quarrelsome, at times almost mutinous, a menace to 
their insufficient guard, and to this and the neighboring towns. 

With this closed the scenes of the Revolution in our territory, 
covering more than two years in time, and including some of the 
most important events of the war. 

CHARLES D. ELLIOT. 




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The Sampler 



This faded bit of antique art, 

Quaint relic of a by-gone day. 
Appeals to mortals grave or gay. 

And brings a thrill to every heart. 

In high-backed chair, with look demure. 
The maiden bends her pretty head 
Cyer fingers deft, that, thread by thread. 

Build up the pattern slow and sure. 

With growing years housewifely skill 
Laughs at each added hourly stint; 
She spins the flax, dries sage and mint. 

Bakes, brews, or churns with right good will. 

In tuneful notes, at break of day. 

Her hymn proclaims a godly heart 
That early chose ^^the better part,^^ 

In good old Puritanic way. 

At day's decline, now fancy free. 

Out in the fields she doth rejoice 
To pluck the flowerets of her choice 

That grow in old Menotomy, 

Or down the garden path she hies. 
Past kitchen-herb and hollyhock. 
To cull a bunch of flowering stock 

For some sick neighbor's glad surprise. 

On winter eves the young folk met, 

To hunt the whistle, play at pawn. 
And once, in lutestring — shade of fawn- 

She danced the stately minuet. 

Sweet Mistress Anne, a woman grown. 

Is busy as the busiest bee; 

Weaving and quilting, for, you see, 
A young man claims her as his own. 



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Plain Peter Tufts is stanch and brown, 

With acres broad and well-filled till; 

The new home caps a sightly hill 
Which overlooks fair Boston town. 

Sedate and wise and well-to-do, 

Our farmer finds a frugal wife; 

Never so rich in all his life! 
For children bring their blessing too. 

Thanksgivings come, thanksgivings go. 

Till, sitting at the table-side. 

Our worthy couple count with pride 
Eleven youngsters in a row. 

But troubles soon or late arrive. 

And human hearts need all their cheer, 

A nation meets the crisis-year 
In seventeen hundred seventy-five ! 

Our patriot takes his trusty gun ; 

With sympathetic impulse quick. 

The matron hastes to nurse the sick, 
For desolating war^s begun. 

With loyal heart and ready hand. 

They do their duty as they may. 

Till clouds of battle roll away 
And' Freedom rings through all the land. 

In later years comes widowhood. 

But with her children's children near. 

As at creation's dawn, with cheer 
She sees that all is ^Very good." 

True daughter of a country blest. 

Right well this heroine of the past 

Lays down life's burdens at the last. 
And wins the peace that comes with rest. 

The ways of God are manifold, 

I read the moral something thus: 

Our every deed lives after us. 
The Sampler's lesson has been told, 

FRANK M. HAWES. 

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John Mallet 

The Old MiUer 




HE old burying-ground at the end of Phipps street, in 
Charlestown, contains no grave more interesting to 
citizens of Somerville than that in which is interred 
the body of John Mallet. Here, among many pioneers 
of pre-Revolutionary days, lie the mortal remains of one 
who has given to Somerville a unique historical monument, the 
copy of which greets us in souvenir spoon, club crest, and city seal. 
A few facts in regard to this man repay the search of the anti- 
quarian. 

John Mallet, a shipwright, is said to have been a Huguenot 
refugee who sought the shelter of this land, coming to Boston early 
in the last century. A later scion of the family became a pioneer 
in Topsham, where descendants of the Mallet name still occupy the 
original farm of the first settler. The names of John Mallet's two 



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wives, Jane Lyroni and Ann Mico, are strange enough in our cars 
to suggest that they too were not of English birth. A visitor to 
the Registry of Deeds in East Cambridge may see the document 
which records the purchase of ten acres of land of Jona. Foskett in 
J 703-04. On this land the mill, known in these later days as the 
Old Powder House, was erected, and John Mallet, its builder and 
owner, became its first miller. His will, dated August 30, 1720, is 
recorded in the Probate Court. 

The last line of his history is told on the stone that marks 
his resting-place in the secluded little spot, a stone^s throw from the 
work and wail of the busy street. Here a massive granite shaft, 
which loyal graduates have erected to the memory of John Harvard, 
overlooks and seems to guard the tablets which recount the virtues 
and tell the end of lesser men. So that he whose deed is brought 
to mind whenever our sister city^s name is spoken, in death is not 
far divided from him who has given to our own city its most 
peculiar possession. 

Mrs. L. F. A. MAULSBY. 







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General Charles Lee 

And The Old Tufts House 

N 1775 Gen. Charles Lee was in Philadelphia. Learn- 
ing of the arrival of Gen. Burgoyne in Boston, he 
wrote a letter 'Mull of invectives against the British 
ministry, and containing an elaborate statement of his 
views of the merits of the contest.^' Lee^s letter was 
an impulsive one, and might even have seemed violent. When he 
served as he did for some time among the Mohawks, who made 
him a chief, they called him ** Boiling Water.^' 

Burgoyne was a personal friend, had served with Lee in 
Portugal, and was familiar with his impetuous temper. His letter 
in reply was a very courteous one, and proposed a personal inter- 
view at a friend^s house on Boston Neck. This question was laid 
before the Provincial Council, who granted permission, couched in 
such diplomatic phrase that Gen. Lee sent word to Burgoyne that it 
would not be expedient for them to meet. 

So far as Gen. Lee is connected with Somerville, it may be 
said briefly that his headquarters in this vicinity were at first in the 
Royal Mansion on the shore of the Mystic in Medford. This 
house was at some distance from his troops, but so delightfully sit- 
uated as to be very attractive. It was in the midst of fruit trees 
and shrubbery some distance from the road. Its wide corridors, 
echoing at the lightest step or lowest voice, gave Lee the fantastic 
notion of naming it ** Hobgoblin Hall.^^ 

By Gen. Washington's orders Lee's headquarters were trans- 
ferred from the Royal Mansion to a point near his command. 
This brought him to the farmhouse still remaining on Sycamore 

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From the cii<,Taviiig" in Girdleston's " Facts tendiiij^- to prove that General Lee was 
the Author of Junius," London, 1813. The drawing,'- was made b^' Barham Ruskbrooke. 
on Lee's return from Poland in 1766, in the uniform of an aide to King- Stanislaus, and 
shows the inevitable dog-. According- to Dr. Girdleston, " thoug-h desig-ned as a carica- 
ture, it was allowed, by all who knew (General Lee, to be the only successful delineation, 
either of his countenance or person." 

'Printed by permission of Houghton. Mifflin & Co. 



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street, the old and historic Tufts house. It is not to-day exactly 
on the site it formerly occupied. The experience of modem times 
demanded that Sycamore street should be straightened, so in 1892 
the house was moved back about forty feet. When occupied by 
Gen. Lee it was two stories high in front, with a long pitched roof, 
descending to a single story in the rear. Here it was Lee had 
his headquarters when commanding the left wing of the American 
army during the Siege of Boston in J 775-76. Here Washington 
came, in consultation with his generals, and here, in the front 
chamber over the parlor, he slept with more or less unbroken 
slumber. 

What interest would be quickened in this venerable record 
of other days if only its walls could make known the conferences to 
which they have echoed; not only should we gather fresh informa- 
tion as to the plans proposed to drive the British from Boston, to 
raise the siege and take possession of that town, but possibly the 
fame of Lee himself would be vindicated from the rumors which 
were current during his life and which clouded his reputation as a 
gallant soldier. Was he traitor to our patriot cause or was he 
a zealous partisan of it? It is said that at Monmouth Lee showed 
so much vacillation, was, as our modern phrase is, so ^^ rattled," 
that he was suspected of cowardice, if not treachery. Washington 
is reported to have called him a 'Mamned poltroon." ^^The only 
time," said Lafayette, ^^I ever heard Washington swear." After 
the battle Lee had the audacity to write two independent letters to 
his commander-in-chief, which might readily subject him to charges 
of conduct subversive of good discipline. He was brought to trial, 
and, after careful consideration of all evidence pro and con, the 
charge of treachery and treason was dismissed, but he was deprived 
of his command one year for insubordination. He died at an 
obscure inn on Market street, Philadelphia, October 2, 1782. His 



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last delirious thoughts were on the battlefield; his last articulated 
words were, "Stand by me, my brave Grenadiers/* 

It is certainly to be hoped that his old headquarters — the 
Tufts house — will be carefully preserved as an object lesson that 
may well excite our imagination as we dwell upon the incident of 
that struggle which belongs to those days that tried men^s souls 
and gave to us freedom and law, liberty and independence. 

JOHN S. HAYES 




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On Prospect Hill 

January I, 1776 

"What is that tall^ white shaft of pine? 

That shaft, when many years have gone, 
Will be a nation's lifted sign 

For centuries to look back upon; 
To loom through perils, victories, fears, 
A beacon for a thousand years. 

See ! see ! there floats an unknown flag, 
A flag unseen, unknown before ; 

Let England's might tear down the rag 
That dares to flaunt upon this shore: 

Aye, snatch the insolent shred away — 

'Tis but the banner of a day! 

Ah, no: by many breezes fanned. 
That flag shall float o'er field and town, 

And strong, ah, strong must be the hand 
That tears that lifted banner down. 

Old thrones shall reel, old realms shall dic^ 

But still that flag shall wave on high. 

Who, who are these plain plowmen here. 
These wielders of the axe and spade, 

In awkward regimental gear 
Drawn up in loose parade? 

Why, these are empire builders, man, 

The greatest since the world began. 

Who are these cohorts from the wood? 

They are the vanguard files of fate. 
Proud men of red, imperial blood. 

High regal souls and great. 
The children of a haughty name. 
The sires of states and sons of fame. 

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And here, to-day, breaks on this height 

The sun-borst of a nation's morn. 
That unknown banner greets the light 

That sees an empire born. 
And these rude ranks that round us stand 
Are fathers of a mighty land/' 

SAM WALTER FOSS» 




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Old Unitarian Church on Highland Avenue 



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The Flag of Our Union 




^In radiance fair, 
Floats on the peaceful air 

That flagf that never stooped from Victory's pride; 
Those stars that softly gfleam. 
Those stripes that o'er us stream, 
In war's grand ag-ony were sanctified: 
A holy standard, pure and free. 
To ligfht the home of peace, or blaze in victory.'' 

F. MARION CRAWFORD. 

HOSE soul does not thrill with emotion when he 
sees the glorious banner of the Union! What mean 
its glorious stars and stripes? It is the flag of his- 
tory. Its blue tells of the unfaltering faith of those 
who rallied about it in 'the days that tried men^s 
souls. Its crimson tells of the heroism that defended it; its white 
of the peerless fidelity of those who with loyal devotion gave them- 
selves to the Union and the nation; it is a banner of beauty and 
glory; its stars are undimmed, its crimson does not fade, its white 
purity is unstained; it is a representation of the dignity and au- 
thority of the nation; it is the clarion inspiration of war; it is the 
sweetest song of peace; it adorns the altar of faith; it crowns the 
fortress, however large or small; it floats from the schoolhouse and 
the home, from the court house and the capitol. 

** Stand by the flag, its folds have streamed in glory, 
To foes a fear, to friends a festal robe. 
And spread in rhythmic lines the sacred story 
Of freedom's triumph o'er all the globe." 

Born of the Revolution, it has passed through the baptism of 
smoke and flame, and to-day is the symbol of the most imperial 
republic the world has ever known. During our Revolutionary 



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struggle the colonies had significant and stirring flags. There was 
a red flag with the motto ^^ Liberty and Union ^^ in white across 
the bottom, with a field bearing royal colors. There was a white 
flag with the words, ^^An Appeal to Heaven/* in black across the 
top, and a pine tree in the centre. There was a blue flag with a 
white crescent in the upper left hand corner, with ^^ Liberty'* in 
white letters at the bottom. There was a yellow flag with a 
coiled rattlesnake in the centre; and there were other flags of 
curious designs that served their purpose, and though unique in 
many particulars, were never without meaning. For instance, an 
officer writing in March, 1776, from what is now part of Somer- 
ville, says: ^^I am stationed on Cobble Hill with four companies 
of our regiment. Every regiment is to have a standard and colors; 
our standard is lo be a deep green ground, the device a tiger, partly 
enclosed by toils, attempting the pass defended by a hunter armed 
with a spear, on a crimson field ; the words * * Donari Nolo / " I 
will never surrender. 

Of the ^^ grand Union flag,** the immediate predecessor of 
the original Stars and Stripes, this interesting and true statement 
can be made, that it was given to the breath of liberty-loving New 
England for the first time January I, J 776. It was hoisted about 
the same time in Cambridge and in Somerville. In the former place 
it could not have been seen from the British works; and although 
Cambridge may be justly proud and join exultingly with us that on 
its Common, as on our Prospect Hill, the same flag threw out its 
folds with promise of better things to come, when the Union Jack 
should be discarded and a constellation of stars take its place; 
nevertheless, it must be conceded that only from Somerville could 
the British see that flag, which they mistook at first as indicating 
the submission of the Colonies to King George's speech; indeed, St. 
Williams, of the Royal Welsh Fusileers, made a water-color paint- 



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ing of what he calls ^^ Mount Pis-ca, or the strongest post of the 
Rebels/^ representing Prospect Hill with a staff and flag. A writer 
gives his testimony, which indicates that the flag was seen, not on 
a common, but from a hilL He says: ^^The grand Union flag 
of thirteen stripes was raised on a height near Boston/^ A letter 
from a British ship captain, January J 7, \ 776, says : ** On the 
receipt of the King^s speech, which they burnt, they hoisted the 
Union flag, which is here in Boston supposed to intimate the union 
of the provinces/^ A British lieutenant, writing from Bunker Hill, 
adds: ^^It was saluted with thirteen guns and thirteen cheers/^ 

In still added confirmation of what has been stated, we quote 
the following from a letter written by Washington, January 4, 1776, 
in which he refers to the new flag: ^^We gave great joy to them 
(the British) without knowing or intending it, for on that day 
which gave being to our new army, but before the proclamation 
came to hand, we hoisted the Union flag in compliment to the 
United Colonies. But behold! it was received at Boston as a 
token of the deep impression the speech had made upon us, and as 
a signal of submission. By this time, I presume, they begin to 
think it strange that we have not made a formal surrender of our 
lines.^^ 

It was Gen. Putnam who flung to the breeze the ^^Flag of 
Prospect Hill.^^ Here, over this ^^ strongest post,^^ this stronghold of 
the American lines, the new American ensign was first beheld by 
its enemies. 

^'Twas when the flower of English troops 

Entrenched in Boston lay, 
On Prospect Hill were anxious groups,^ 

All eager for the fray. 
Their hearts had long defiance hurled. 

Though every voice was still 
Until old Putnam here unfurled 

The Flag of Prospect Hill. 



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** Sublime the motto which it bore. 

Appeal to Heaven^s higfh throne. 
That he who brought them to this shore 

Would guard them as His own. 
And here they stood, this gallant band. 

Resolved their blood to spill, 
Defending from a foeman^s hand 

The Flag of Prospect Hill. 

** While fervent prayer to Heaven ascends 

To bless the patriots^ cause. 
The air a solemn silence lends, 

As suppliant here they pause. 
Amen! then thirteen hearty cheers 

Were echoed loud and shrill. 
While floating high o^er all appears 

The Flag of Prospect Hill.' 



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But let us not, with all fond memories of the Flag of Pros- 
pect Hill, forget the reverent honor due our own star-emblazoned 
banner, the Flag of Liberty and Independence. 

Out upon the four winds blow. 

Tell the world your story. 
Thrice in heart's blood dipped before 

They called your name Old Glory ! 
Stream, Old Glory, bear your stars 

High above the Seven, 
Stream a watchfire on the dark. 

And make a sign in heaven. 



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Maj*-Gen* John Paterson 

Commander at Union Square 

|OHN PATERSON was Colonel of the] ^Berkshire 
County Minutemen at the outbreak of the^^RevoIu- 
tion. His residence was Lenox. He was Connec- 
ticut born and bred. He graduated at Yale College 
in J 762. He was a prime factor in the organization 
of many beneficent movements. He was a member of the Pro- 
vincial Congress, and knew well the machinations of the British. 
He kept his followers in the mountain towns informed of every 
movement of the King^s forces. During the season of 1774 and 
early 1775 he was in the vicinity of Boston. Knowing the com- 
bat to be approaching, he went to his Berkshire home to summon 
them anew; and no sooner there than the news spread over the 
country, by flying horsemen, that the '' Regulars ^^ had fired upon 
the *^ Provincials ^* at Concord and Lexington. News reached 



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Lenox, one hundred and thirty miles distant, during the night of 
the nineteenth of April, and the morning of the twentieth found a 
fully-equipped regiment on the march to Boston. To be sure, their 
services were not immediately required, but if that early struggle 
had been prolonged, the men of Berkshire would have rendered 
the same sort of service as did the men of Acton, Concord, and 
Lexington. The Berkshire Regiment came to Boston. At once it 
was placed at a trying point, and during the Siege of Boston — 
summer, autumn, and winter — the regiment rendered patriotic ser- 
vices within the limits of Somerville. 

Col. Paterson and his command was placed at a strategic 
point, — at the foot of Prospect Hill, — where ''Fort Number 
Three ^^ was constructed to guard the road to Cambridge, and 
within speedy reach of Lechmere Point. This ''Fort^^ was at the 
present Union-square Station on the Fitchburg Railroad. Lechmere 
Point was at the Court House, East Cambridge. Near the junction 
of Medford street and Somerville avenue was a redoubt, which was 
in his special charge. To be sure, the Evacuation of Boston, after 
a most trying winter in huts and trenches, did not permit a trial of 
these strategic points. But it was just such military and engineer- 
ing skill displayed that made the British to think more than twice 
before opening an attack. If the British had made a move towards 
Cambridge or the inland towns, the large value of the citadel on 
Prospect Hill and the forts on Central and Winter Hills and in the 
intervale guarding the turnpike would have been at once seen. 
The ''red coats'' may have had the discipline and the uniform, 
but the minutemen had the valor and courage of freemen. Col. 
Paterson had standing orders from Washington himself, during the 
entire Siege of Boston, on the least alarm to advance with his men 
to the redoubts nearer the shore to meet the invaders. And so 
well was he prepared, that as soon as preparations were made for 

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^* going to Halifax/^ the Berkshire Regiment was sent speedily 
across Connecticut to guard the lower Hudson. In the mind of 
Washington the lower Hudson must be retained at every hazard 
by the Provincial troops. Troops from Boston arrived at New 
York as soon as the British vessels, which went around Cape Cod. 
CoL Paterson was at once, and from this time onward, placed at 
strategic points where military skill was demanded. He was 
rapidly promoted to the rank of a Major-General. He was a close 
friend and counsellor of Knox and Washington. His loyalty to the 
cause in which Washington led was never questioned. He super- 
intended the construction of many of the strong forts on the Hudson 
River, and was constantly in command. He remained with the 
patriot army from the first to the last. 

It was Gen. Paterson who proved the good friend of 
Deborah Sampson, the woman soldier of the Revolution. On the 
return of peace. Gen. Paterson returned to his Lenox home and en- 
gaged once more with his accustomed energy in the affairs of 
peace. In 1792 he purchased a large tract of land in the Chenango 
valley. Central New York, and migrated thither. He became a 
judge, and was. a United States Senator at the time of his death, in 
J 808. In the new country, as in his former home, he was fore- 
most in promoting schools and religious interests, and at all times 
was a devoted citizen, a loyal, liberty-loving man, brave in promot- 
ing peace, as he was in the years which tried men^s souls. 

A few years since a monument was reared in Lenox to his 
memory; and recently a great-grandson. Dr. Thomas Egleston, of 
Columbia College, prepared and published an extended biography of 
him. Among the maps in this biography is one of the fortifica- 
tions of Somerville, showing the relations of one fort to another, 
and the engineering and military skill with which they were placed 
and constructed. This map was executed by Mr. Charles D. Elliot, 



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President of the Somerville Historical Society, and we have no hesi- 
tancy in pronouncing it a genuine contribution to the cartography 
of the Siege of Boston. The monument to Gen. Paterson^s 
memory, and the biography, intelligently and affectionately prepared, 
will last long to tell the story of patriotism, as shown in his career 
and character; but longer yet, we trust, will endure the nation, 
which represents the largest freedom, the choicest liberty, and the 
noblest spirit cherished in the hearts of men. 

ANSON TITUS. 




Union Square at the Time of the Civil War 



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Prospect Hill 

And Its Early History 




EW spots throughout the length and breadth of this 
country have as many incidents in their history to 
excite the patriotic feelings of Americans as Prospect 
Hill. And fortunate, indeed, it is that in this year of 
1898 the City of Somerville has decided that a part 
of the now nearly decapitated hilltop shall forever be preserved as 
a shrine to American patriotism. 

In its connection with the American Revolution chiefly lies 
the fame of Prospect Hill. Close to its foot the British marched on 
their way to Concord and Lexington on the night of April J 8, 
J 775, and again they skirted its base late in the afternoon of the 
following day, when they received the hottest fire during their dis- 
astrous retreat. A month later Col. Paterson^s regiment occupied a 
breastwork at the foot of the hill, which had not then been forti- 
fied. On the evening of June 16, 1775, Col. Prescott marched from 
Cambridge, with one thousand men, along the foot of the hill to 
fortify Bunker Hill, and during the memorable struggle of the 
seventeenth the hill was occupied by the American reserves. Re- 
treating from Bunker Hill, the Americans took a defiant stand on 
Prospect Hill, and immediately began to fortify it, under the orders 
of Gen. Israel Putnam, who superintended the work in person. 
From then till the British were driven out of Boston, March J 7, 
1776, it was the strongest and most important fortification in the 
American lines and a constant menace to the enemy. Nearly four 
thousand American troops, under the immediate command of Gen. 
Nathaniel Greene, were encamped here during the Siege of Boston. 
At a later period two thousand three hundred British troops from 



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Gen. Burgoyne^s surrendered army were quartered in the barracks 
on the hill for about a year. 

The outline of the fortifications at Prospect Hill and vicinity 
was traced many years ago by Charles D. Elliot, formerly city en- 
gineer, who has recently prepared a map to be used by Prof. 
Thomas Egleston, of Columbia University, in his forthcoming vol- 
ume on the ^^Life of Gen. John Paterson.^^ A copy of this map is 
here presented, by which the reader can easily comprehend the sys- 
tem of fortifications. Cobble Hill on the map is Asylum Hill; 
Lechmere Point is East Cambridge; Willis Creek was Miller^s 
River, now filled; Fort Number Three was located near the 
Union-square Station on the Fitchburg Railroad; Cambridge road 
is the present Washington street; the road to Menotomy (Arling- 
ton), Bow street and Somerville avenue; the road to Lee*s head- 
quarters, the present School street; road to Putnam^s headquarters, 
Newton and Prospect streets; and the road to Ploughed (Nunnery) 
Hill, Shawmut and Cross streets. Strong redoubts encircled the 
steep brows of Prospect Hill, while the citadel occupied a com- 
manding place on the summit. 

In close connection with the military importance of Prospect 
Hill are its sentimental and political aspects. Here on this cele- 
brated hilltop on Tuesday morning, July 18, J 775, ^^Putnam^s 
Flag,^^ the standard of the Third Connecticut Regiment, was un- 
furled with appropriate ceremonies. This was the famous ^^Flag 
of Prospect Hill.*^ The flag was a scarlet standard, bearing the 
Connecticut arms, with the motto, "Qui transtulit sustinet,*^ on one 
side, and on the other, the recognized motto of Massachusetts, ** An 
Appeal to Heaven.** The flagstaff must have been a temporary 
affair, for history records that on August \ following a mast 
seventy-six feet tall was raised on the hill, which had been taken 
from a schooner that was burned at Chelsea. 

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THE HASTY PUDDING PARTY ON PROSPECT HILL 

(From the original picture by Henry Tacon, Varis, formerly a resident of Somer^nlle. By permission of Lothrop Publishing Co.) 

Copyriglited in Wide Awake. January, Iv.U 



Another, and still more important, flag-raising took place on 
Prospect Hill January J, 1776, possibly in the presence of Gen. 
George Washington, commander-in-chief of the eighteen thousand 
American troops investing Boston. A committee had been ap- 
pointed by the Continental Congress, consisting of Franklin, Lynch, 
and Harrison, to design a ** Union ** flag. This was the first 
American Union flag, and was hoisted on the day that the new 
Continental Army was organized. Its unfurling before the great 
Provincial Army was one of the most momentous events in the 
country^s history, signifying to the world that a union had been 
formed, which not even the greatest civil war in history could rend 
asunder. The flag contained thirteen stripes, but whether these 
stripes were red and white or red and blue is not known, 
akhough historians generally say the colors were red and white. 
In the corner were the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew, in- 
dicating still the loyaky of the colonies to Great Britain, and show- 
ing but a vague idea at most of independence. 

Again, during the Civil War, Prospect Hill became a camp- 
ing ground for American soldiers. Many years ago an attempt 
was made to locate the old Revolutionary flagstaff, and after per- 
sistent digging a mast was found, probably the original staff, a 
little back of the house formerly occupied by Rev. Charles A. 
Skinner on Munroe street, about midway between Prospect-hill 
avenue and Greenville street. 

A handsome painting of the historic flag-raising of January 
1, 1776, was made one year ago by Clyde O. DeLand, of Phila- 
delphia, an American artist, who is deeply interested in the history 
of this country. Before starting it, he visited Prospect Hill, mak- 
ing sketches and taking photographs of the place. The painting 
measures 23 x 36 inches, and is now in the artistes possession. 
From this picture a magnificent double-page half-tone illustration 



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was printed by Harpcr^s Weekly last January, on the anniversary 
of the flag-raising, and, very appropriately, an artistes proof of 
this picture was sent by Harper & Brothers as the first gift to the 
newly-organized Somerville Historical Society. 

WILLIAM P. JONES. 




An Ancient Living Room 



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Bunker Hill 



When 

Lafayette Came to Town 

|EVENTY-FIVE years ago my mother was a small 
Somerville girl. It was all Charlestown then, rich in 
historic associations as it is to-day, and sharing with 
the old town, from which later it was sliced away, 
alike the honor of Winthrop^s farm and the glory of 
Among my mother^s papers — she was a Munroe of 
Prospect Hill — I find a manuscript series of sketches of her girl- 
hood in Somerville, written for her grandchildren and full of good 
material. From these I select a few passages, as characteristic of 
life in Somerville in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. 
Chief among these must be reckoned the day when Lafayette rode 
along Milk row. 

It was in J 824 or 1825, during Lafayette^s famous visit to 
America, says my mother, that the gallant Frenchman rode one 
day from Boston to Cambridge, by way of Milk row and Charles- 
town. **He rode in a barouche, drawn by four white horses, and, 
for some reason, the whole line of carriages stopped as they were 



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passing our house. My sister and I were perched on the top of 
one of the back buildings, just where we could have a good view 
of the procession. When the carriages stopped we two little girls 
took off our cape bonnets and waved them at Lafayette, where- 
upon the little old man bent forward, with all the grace of a 
Frenchman, and smilingly bowed to us ! Then one of my brothers 
went to the barouche, and from his hand the man so honored by 
the whole American nation took a glass of water and put it to his 
lips. How much we thought of that glass ! It is thus that little 
incidents of the great and good will be treasured not only in the 
heart of childhood, but all through life.*^ 

Here is another sketch of an old-time festivity — the ^^ open- 
ing** of the new windmill: — 

** On the top of Prospect Hill, made famous by Revolution- 
ary stories, my father built a windmill. It was an eight-sided 
building, tapering off toward the top like an enormous haystack. 
It had four wings, which reached almost to the ground, and when 
the wind blew hard enough to make them turn, the big, round 
millstones would grind against each other, the bags of yellow com 
would be poured into the hoppers, and sweet meal would be 
ground out. 

^' While our windmill was being built many curious eyes 
watched its progress, and when it was completed my father invited 
all his friends and relatives, far and near, to come and eat hasty 
pudding and milk the first day the wind blew hard enough to 
move the wings. ... At length the good time came. The morn- 
ing was clear and breezy, and at three o^clock we were dismissed 
from school and climbed the hill, where already friends and rela- 
tives had assembled from Boston, Charlestown, Roxbury, Cam- 
bridge, Lexington, Medford, and I don*t know how many other 
places. Fires were kindled on the Jside of the hill that was 



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shielded from the wind, and men and women were stirring the 
freshly-ground yellow meal into savory mush as the miller brought 
it to them. 

** The wind blew, the sun shone, and everyone was in the 
best humor, each waiting his turn with bowl and spoon. My 
father had engaged milk from all the farmers weeks previous, and 
all the guests brought their own bowls and spoons. It was a merry 
occasion, and we little folks thought the young men very funny, as 
they went around singing: — 

* Hasty puddingf, hasty puddingf, hasty pudding and milk. 
Hasty pudding, hasty pudding with a little molasses inV ** 

Still another picture of Prospect Hill children in those far- 
away days do I find, and this time in connection with the Har- 
vard boys, whom time, it seems, does not change in their exuber- 
ance of spirits. 

'' Commc xement Day at Harvard,^' says the manuscript, 
"was not, in iny childhood, associated with halls of learning, but 
with booths and tents on the grounds around the college buildings, 
where candy, cakes, and fruit were sold to the children. To ex- 
change our money for these things was to us going to Commence- 
ment! For what purpose we thought that young men were be- 
hind those brick walls I cannot say; for, when free from the 
restraints there imposed on them, they were bugbears to us chil- 
dren. Prospect Hill, which, by right, was our playground, and to 
which we would invite our young companions, seemed to attract 
those young men also in their recreation hours. They would come 
with a rush, jumping fences, singing and shouting, breaking the 
branches from the trees, shaking down the pears, pulling off the 
apples, and scattering our little groups in the wildest confusion. 
At the first sound of their boisterous merriment, we would rush 
from the orchard where we were eating fruit and gathering 

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flowers and make for a place of safety, calling to each other, 
* Run, run ; the collegians are coming ! ' 

** Since I have understood mischief-loving young men, I can 
imagine that those boys enjoyed highly what was sport to them, 
but death to us — or almost that; for we would be so paralyzed 
with fear that our little feet could scarcely keep their strength to 
reach home, where, when questioned as to our alarm, the invaria- 
ble answer would be, ^O, those horrible collegians frightened us'/^* 

No reminiscences of Somerville in those old days would be 
complete without a reference to the famous convent on Mount 
Benedict — the ^^ Nunnery,^* as the Somerville children always called 
it* I find in my mother^s manuscript a full description of the place 
and of its outrageous destruction by a lawless mob, but from this 
I take only a characteristic child-memory. 

It seems that one of the girls who ran away from the 
^^ Nunnery ,^^ and caused much of the subsequent trouble, came to 
my grandfather and begged his help to recover some of her be- 
longings. He consented, and so, my mother says, ^^It was decided 
that my sister and myself should go for the runaway^s property. 

'* Accordingly,^^ she continues, ** we went. As we approached 
the gate I tremblingly caught my sister^s hand, fearing the big dog 
within. * Don^t go,^ I said. * We must,^ she replied ; * be brave,* 
and, I don^t know how, we managed to get inside the gate. We 
knocked on the outer door. It was opened by a pale, calm-looking 
woman, who did not seem an inhabitant of this bright, sunshiny 
world. In a voice which seemed to express doubt as to our suc- 
cess, my sister stated our errand, and, greatly to our surprise, at 
once the silent woman gave us what we asked for. 

** What a pair of heroines we were when we reached home ! 
All sorts of questions were showered upon us: Were you afraid? 
What did they say? Did the big dog jump at you? Indeed, we 

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scx)n began to think that we really were brave and had done a 
magnanimous and very daring deed/* 

So, through the little manuscript run these brief glimpses at 
childish days- amid the orchards and gardens, the lanes and by- 
paths of what then was a pleasant stretch of hill and valley and 
fertile farmland, but where to-day a prosperous, pushing city covers 
plain and upland. Apart from its value as a treasured memorial of 
one whose whole life was a blessing and a benediction, this manu- 
script holds, at this season, a renewed interest as a picture of 
Boston^s beautiful suburbs five and seventy years ago. 

ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS. 







Old Stearns House, Broadway 



J'"' ty/j^.\i<'.i^\fc. 



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1 1/^'/ 



Old Russell House, Broadway, West Somcrville 

Drawn by Georg-e P. Fernald 



Memories 

Of Early Days 




have been invited to give some reminiscences of the 
early days of Somerville, but as I have already con- 
tributed several pages to a former publication, ** Som- 
erville Past and Present/^ I feel that I have exhausted 
my memories of the old places and personalities. 
Still, there is always a little gleaning after the reaper, and some 
impressions may steal across my vision which were not photo- 
graphed upon the other sheets. 

When my husband and I first thought of coming here, in 
J 859, our friends tried to dissuade us from the venture. The only 
idea they had of the place was what they gained from the vicinity 
of the railroads in passing up into the country and down. It is 
not much to be wondered at, and some to this day still cherish the 



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Winter Hill and Winter Hill Station on Lowell R. R. from Central Hill J880 



delusion. The two stopping-places on the Fitchburg Railroad, named 
then Prison Point and Hospital Crossing, gave a suggestion of 
depravity of character and aberration of mind, not favorable to the 
reputation of the neighborhood. But to counterbalance these preju- 
dices, I can recall what a cultivated young minister said to me: 
**You are going to a very choice place on those hills *^; and so it 
was. He remembered, probably, his walks over here from Cam- 
bridge College and Divinity School, where many a student, with 
the fine frenzy in his eye, invoked the Goddess of Nature and 
poured forth his orations, delighting in the sound of his own voice, 
undisturbed by the noise of electric cars, and only interrupted by 
the crows cawing in the old elm trees scattered all about the 
pastures. 

The houses were simple, but ample in size, and almost 
every family had a good piece of land for vegetables and flowers, 
and especially pear trees, which flourished on these sunny hills, so 
free from early and late frosts. It was a picturesque sight to see 
the great loads of hay go through the thoroughfares from the coun- 
try to market. If you needed hay, you had only to run down the 
hill and beckon to the driver. The sweet aroma that exhaled 
from it was quite different from the dry bundles that we buy to- 
day. Our horses consequently thrived, and our own white pony. 
Flora, whom we brought from the hills of New Hampshire, lived 
to a good old age in this healthy atmosphere, and was known to 
all the neighbors. She finally yielded to rheumatism, and lying 
down one warm summer day in our pasture, she could never rise 
again. She took handfuls of grass from boys that went by, and 
passed away under the friendly light of the stars, and was 
buried in our orchard. The long row of sheds belonging to the 
Unitarian Church were an interesting feature of country life, and 
the situation on Central Hill was so commanding that it could be 



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seen all around the suburbs of Boston. It was the ''First Congre- 
gational Church*^ of Somerville, and for some time, I think, the 
only church. Mrs. Columbus Tyler and Miss Whittredge carried 
on a Sunday school, before worship was established, being troubled 
because the brick-makers^ children were brought up in such an 
atmosphere of noise and profanity on Sundays. 

The schools in Somerville were excellent for the period, 
and the primary ones were especially interesting, being free from 
the present crowded condition of the population. The little children 
were under the immediate eye of gentle and winning teachers, and 
made happy on their road to knowledge. All the neighbors* chil- 
dren frequented our grounds and pasture, and enjoyed the gymna- 
sium in the barn and the large U. S. Army tent on the lawn. 
This brings me to the subject of the Civil War. Somerville sent 
her due proportion of men and money to the war, and the women 
in all the churches worked faithfully night and day to prepare com- 
forts for the soldiers. Miss Sarah Foster, a daughter of an early 
esteemed citizen, was supported as a teacher for the Freedmen by 
the Baptist and Unitarian people on Spring Hill. My husband, the 
Rev. Charles Lowe, I remember, gave a parting address in his 
church to certain companies, and his society presented each soldier 
with a pocket Bible; he also addressed a gathering under the flag 
at Union square. He never despaired of the cause, and did a great 
deal by his hopeful demeanor at home and during his work at the 
South to keep up the spirit of our people. The High School 
Union, which was first started by the lamented Edward Edgerly, 
showed the fine progressive and serious spirit of the young gradu- 
ates of that day. 

There were several societies for mutual improvement in the 
town. The one I especially remember was the ** Conversation 
Club " on Spring Hill, where a few ladies and gentlemen met every 

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week at each others^ houses for conversation on literary themes or 
educational subjects. 

There was a pleasant equality among the people in their 
various churches^ and their parish parties constituted their principal 
social life, and enhanced the influence of the church upon a com- 
munity, not so much carried away then with the distractions of 
the present age. 

I fear I have already exceeded my space, and will close 
these imperfect records and this rambling talk with my best wishes 
for the success of the Somerville Historical Society. 

MARTHA PERRY LOWE. 




Samuel Tufts House 



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Somerville 

in the Civil War 

E 'must not neglect the record of Somerville in our 
Civil War. When the tocsin of war sounded Som- 
erville was a town of about nine thousand people. 
She was not at a loss as to what her duty should 
be. Before President Lincoln issued his call for 
troops Somerville had been roused throughout her borders. Cobble 
Hill echoed back the old refrain of the Powder House, and Ploughed 
Hill and Winter Hill sounded across the valley from Prospect Hill 
the defiant loyalty to the Union flag. 

Meetings were called and committees for recruiting appointed. 
The utterances of the town by resolutions, by pecuniary contribu- 
tions, and by enlistments, had no uncertain sound. So that within 
four days of the President's proclamation, — April 19, 1 86 J, the 
anniversary of the day which helped so loyally to make Somerville 
patriotic and freedom-loving, — Somerville's soldiers left Faneuil Hall 
for the seat of war. Hundreds of her men took part in the nation's 
strife. Other States counted Somerville men in artillery, infantry, 
and cavalry service. They were to be found in the navy, in the 
regular army, and the engineer corps. 

This fact stands us in place of many words, that Somerville 
furnished 1,135 men for the defense of the Union flag; that 98 
were killed in battle or died in the hospitals; that 250 were 
wounded in active conflict; and that out of its army of J, 1 35 men 
40 were commissioned officers. 

Aside from the treasure of life and strength contributed to 
upholding the integrity of the nation, the home of national man- 



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hood, and the power of the nation^s flag, it should thrill us with 
justifiable pride to know that our city raised more than $200,000 
for the Union cause, and that its refined, cultured, and warm- 
hearted women were unceasing in vigilance and toil in work for 
Christian and Sanitary Commissions, by which their loving hands 
cheered the wounded, comforted the sick, and blessed the dying. 

We may say, without exaggeration or qualification, that the 
record of Somerville at home and in the field establishes its rightful 
claim to loyalty, heroism, and patriotic devotion to this municipality, 
to this grand old Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and to our great 
republic, with its unbroken federation of States. 

*^ Nothing can rob thee, oh, beautiful queen, 
Of the names and the fame of thy patriot dead ; 
Dead for their homes and dead for their flagf, 
Under the shaft or the slab marked ^Unknown,' 
Honored and loved, they live in thy heart ; 
For Somerville^s dead are forever her own.^ 

JOHN S. HAYES 




House Once Occupied by Edward Everett, Winter Hill 
6i 




Y^ Little Old Schoolhouse 

And Its Pupils 

!ROM earliest times the desire to advance educational 
interests has been shown by the cities and towns of 
our Commonwealth. Next to religion, the Puritans 
ranked education. In front of our State House 
stands the statue of Horace Mann, the educator, 
presented to the State by the school children in 1869. One of the 
reasons why Somerville became a separate town in 1842 was to 
provide better public schools. A few facts concerning the first 
schools may be of interest. The Cedar-street Schoolhouse was 
the first, though built under another name, in 1843. In J 868 it 
was removed to its present site. The valuation of school property 
in 1842-43 was $4,455, and during the same years the sum of 
$J,287 was expended for school purposes. Two hundred and 
twenty-six pupils wended their way in J 842 to ye little old schools. 
The first three superintendents were Rev. George H. Emerson, O. 
S. Knapp, and- Joshua H. Davis. The schools were under Mr. 
Davis^s care twenty-two years. The salaries paid were as follows: 
$600 to grammar principals and $210 to assistants. In 1856 $1,000 
was the salary paid to high school principals, $800 to grammar 
principals, and $250 to women assistants. In the early days the 
study of psychology did not receive attention, and the knowledge of 
the needs of child-life was meagre. Much was expected of the 
pedagogue; he had to be 

^A man so various that he seemed to be 
Not one, but all mankind's epitome/' 

No doubt he aimed for a high standard, and after sixty 
years of onward march, we look back on the stream of educational 

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progress and give thanks and praise to the early pioneers who 
began their work in our public schools. 

^A consciousness remains that they have left 
Deposited upon the silent shore 
Of memory, images and precious thoughts 
That shall not diCf and cannot be destroyed." 

MINA J. WENDELL. 




Union Primary Schoolhouse, Built in 1842 



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Cast of Scenes 



Scene L An English Rural Gathering 

In charge of Mrs. A. C. Hill, Mrs. E. S. Conant, and Mrs. 

W. M. Hadley 



CHARACTERS 



Miss Adella R. Hill 

** Amy L. Cole 

** Lena Crane 

" Alice Spaulding 

** Mary B. Reed 

*' Bertha Wright 

** Ella Burgess 

'' Nettie M. Lovering 

** Bertha Perham 

** Bland Thomas 

*' Bertha Richards 

** Jessie Grieves 

** Jennie Perry 

May Queen 

Peggy 

Geogory the Court Jester 

WiUy - - - - 



Miss Annie Harvey 
*^ Ethelwyn Drew 
*' Ethel Batchelor 
** Susie M. Vincent 

Mr. M. P. Reed 
** Joseph C. Howes 
** Ernest Wing 
** Charles Houghton 
'* W. M. Elliott 
** Arthur Foss 
** George Moody 
** Joseph Ralph 

Miss A. M. Emerson 
Miss L. Lund 
Mr. W. F. Cutter 
Mr. W. H. Burgess 



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•••• JOJEPH J. QILE/"" 

REAL EJTflTEiSSINJUMNCE 



31 Union Square 



Somerville, Mass. 



Auctioneer, Notary Public, Justice of the Peace. Rents and Claims Collected* 
Mortgages Negotiated. Titles Examined 

Branch Office . . . 344 Medford Street, Oilman Square 



LAMSON & HUBBARD 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



Tine Silk, Stiff, 



HATS 



Soft and Straw 



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90 to 94 Bedford and 229 Washington Streets 
BOSTON, MASS. 



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Scene IL Indian Home Life and Arrival of the 
First White Settlers 

In charge of Mrs. C. W. Hale, Mrs. W. S. Brackett, 
and Mrs. A. C. Aldrich 

CHARACTERS 

Miss Gertrude Hall Mr. Ralph F. Reynolds 

*' Martha Hale '* Arthur B. Harlow 

'' Bertha Paul '' Charles M. Houghton 

Mr. F. W. Swan " P. Bethel Wright 

" Stanley H. Tead '' Albert W. Hale 

** Frank E. Fitts, Jr. '* G. L. Peirce 

** Everett Davis " H. J. Sanborn 

** Edmund Harvey ** A. J. Meserve 

** W. C. Nickerson '* L. Dyer 

INDIAN CHIEFS 
Mr. Bradford H. Peirce Mr. Cushman 



^ 



Scene IIL Launching of the Bark^ ^^The 
Blessing of the Bay 



ft 



In charge of Mrs. G, M. Harmon, Mrs. G. H. Folger, and 
Mrs. G. T. Knight 

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mellitidton-mna £oal Company 

Successors to Horatio Wellington & Co. and B. F. Wild & Co. 

JIntbracite and Bituminous 



Brancb Vards and Offices 

226 Main Street, Charlestown 
511 Main Street, Charlestown 
Union Square, Somervii.ee 
Oilman Square, Somervieee 



G0AL 



mbarves 

Craigie's Bridge, East Cambridge 

149 Medford St., 34 Warren Ave. 

Charlestown District, Boston 



6eneral Office, 7 Central Street, Boston 



HOWE & FLINT 



f^^ t^^ t^^ t^* 



Furnaces 



f^^ ^^ fi^^ ft^^ 




tt^* c^^ t^^ t^^ 



and 



Ranges 



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Telephone 32-4 
67 



LAUNCHING OF THE BARK— Continued 



CHARACTERS 
Miss Estelle Bray Miss Maude Tousey 



** Ruth Capen 

** Ethel Harmon 

** Louise Mellen 

** Isabella Knight 

** Gertrude Knight 

" Ruth Tousey 

Gov. John Winthrop 



Mr. Charles Anthony 
** Samuel Capen 
" AHred Hensted 
** Harry Turner 
** Carl C. Tarbox 
** Louis A. Brown 

Mr. Walter Sawyer 



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Scene IV* A Social Gathering at Ten Hills Farm 

In charge of Mrs. C. D. Densmore, Mrs. A. W. Edmands, and 

Mrs. John E. Sylvester 



Miss 



CHARACTERS 

Alice B. Edmands 
Adelaide R. Edmands 
Gertrude N. Hall 
Anna B. West 
Grace C. Howes 
Mildred B. Howes 
Geraldine Brooks 
Mabel G. Paul 
Irma Bradshaw 



Mr. John P. Sylvester 

** Charles D. Richards 

** Fred L. Richards 

** F. Frost Barrett 

** Hosmer Barrett 

** Philip H. Darling 

" Irving Wetherbee 

** Alfred J. Brine 

** Francis J. Brine 



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A GENTLEMAN'; 

Dress Overcoat 



r 



♦♦ ♦♦ 



Made from the Celebrated Fitchburg Kerseys, in Blacks, 
Blues, and Browns. Thoroughly tailored and guaranteed .. 

PRICE S15.00 



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Estimates for Private and Public Buildings cheerfully given 

69 



A SOCIAL GATHERING — Continued 



Miss Helen D. Carr 
** Maude S- Richards 
** Elizabeth Jackman 
** Blanche Bradford 

Mr. Edward D. Densmore 
'* G. Ellis Densmore 



Mr. George H. Galpin 
'' Arthur A. Kidder 
** Gifford Currier 
** G. F. Brett 
" J. N. Buckingham 
'' A. Rorke 



** John H. Densmore 

Harpsichord over one hundred years old kindly loaned by 
Chickering & Co. Lee Powers kindly loaned old-fashioned furniture. 

Scene V* A Colonial Wedding 

In charge of Mrs. Helen E. Heald, Mrs. E. A. Maynard, and 

Mrs. H. F. Woods 

CHARACTERS 
Miss Mabel Fisher Mr. Harry Stephenson 



Mabel Fitz 
Carrie Hoyt 
Amy Hamlet 
Florence Ralph 
Bertha Brown 
Bessie Cullen 
Gertrude Thompson 
Mrs. Maude Hibbs 



William Stephenson 
Herbert Stone 
C. Nichols 
Harold Kneeland 
Louis Dearborn 
Harry Osgood 
Harold Palmer 
Bradford H. Peirce 



Mr. Richard Churchill 

Bride ------ Miss Elsie Lake 

Groom - - - - Mr. Carol L. Nichols 



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71 



$otticn)ille D^^ti^nal Bank 

SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS 
58 UNION SQUARE 

Cransacts a General Banking Business 
CAPITAL, $100,000.00 

♦. .. H)irectors .. ♦. 

J. O. Hayden, Pres. Walter C. Mentzer 

John A. Gale, Vice-Pres. Frederic W. Stone 

James F. Beard, Cashier Nathan H. Reed 

L. Rog-er Wentworth A. M. Kidder 

Allen F. Carpenter Albion A. Perry 

James F. Hathaway David D. Lord 

F. W. Parker Simon Connor 

J. Frank Wellingfton Georere O. Proctor 



J- ^ J- llnM\>i&ual ant) jf inn accounts SoUciteD ^ ^ ^ 

PERKINS^ 

THE DRUGGIST 

Cor* Central and Albion Streets 

WHITNEY & SNOW 

^HARDWARE^ 

21 UNION SQUARE, SOMERVILLE 



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Scene VL The Old Powder House 

In charge of Mrs. Adella Cummings, Mrs. Alfred T. Nash, and 

Mrs. S. Henry Wilkins 

CHARACTERS 

Miss Georgia Reed Miss Bertha Keyes 

Miss D. May Reed Miss Florence Eaton 

MILLERS 

Mr. Louis L. Glazier Mr. Everett Davis 

FARMERS 

Mr. Arthur E. Ellis Mr. Ralph Reynolds 

BRITISH OFFICERS 
Mr. John F. McGann Mr. R. Loring 



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Scene VIL The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere^ 
and The Call to Arms 

In charge of Mrs. C. P. Battelle, Mrs. R. H. Riddell, and 
Mrs. Nellie S. Smith 

CHARACTERS 

Miss Mattie N. Freedom Mr. Ralph H. Kenniston 
*' Inez M. King '' D. Frank Rinn 

** Mercy P. Byam " L. M. Bacon 

** Ethel C. Wheeler *' C. E. Nichols 

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Ride of Paul Revere 



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RIDE OF PAUL REVERE— Continued 


Miss Georgie M. Clark 


Mr. Chester W. Butterworth 


** Florence King 


" Lawrence Robbins 


Mr. Guy C. Riddell 


" Percy Rolfe 


" G. Waldo Proctor 


** Frank A. Bennett 


" Ralph H. Hosmer 


** Howard Giles 


** W. G. Eaton 


'* G. H, Burgess 


** H. Prescott 


" H. Adams 


Captain _ - - 


Mr. Alexander J. Rorke 


Stage Driver 


Mr. Elmer L. Brine 


Fanner _ _ - 


Mr. J. R. Nichols 


Farmer _ - - 


Mr. Walter C. Nickerson 


Farmer _ _ - 


Mr. Robert J. Peters 


Blacksmith - - - 


Mr. Guy P. Moses 



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Scene VIIL The Battle of Bunker Hifl 

In charge of Mrs. S. H. Libby, Mrs. A. S. Hill, and 
Mrs. George F. Loring 

AMERICAN SOLDIERS 
Mr. B. D. Bourne Mr. Russell Pipe 



Walter Littlefield 
Anson M. Titus 
Edward S. Cox 
Henry E. Mead 
Ralph Reynolds 
Dana W. Bennett 



Charles Shaw 
Harry OTeary 
F. E. Cross 
Robert A. Bennett 
E. J. Loring 



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FREDERICK W. GAY 
REGISTERED PHARMACIST 

PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY 

524 Somerville Avenue^ ^ Somerville; Mass* 
OUR FOREFATHERS—^ 

^ and our Foremothers were strong people, and they 

J^^ needed to be, because they didn^t have an aid like the 

#^ BICVCLE WRINGKR 

1^ to save the hard work. It is made with ball-bearings, 

and runs easy under the heaviest strain. Price $3.50 

W, R PLUMER & CO., ^ 52 UNION SQ, 

L. H. BROWN 

Rack, Urns, Boardind. anil Sale Stable 

Cor. Somerville Avenue and Prospect Street 
SOMERVILLE 

Particular attention given to Boarding Horses 
Carriao^es and Harnesses for Sale 

CASSIUS HUNT CHARLES C. PAYSON EDWIN HUNT 

C. HUNT St CO. 

Wholesale Cotncnission Dealers in 

0CEnn, LAKE, RivEK^ronD TREin risn 

120 MD 122 Muin nffliin mm. Doaon 

TELEPHONE CONNECTION 
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BATTLE OF BUNKER HELL— Continued 



BRITISH 

Mr. Ralph S. Loring 
*' John F. McGann 

General Clinton 
Israel Putnam 
Captain Small 
Lord Rawdon 
General Prescott 



SOLDIERS 

Mr. Thomas P. McGann 
** Louis Pennock 

Mr. C. E. Conover 

Mr. E. W. Curtis 

Mr. Herbert P. Yeaton 

Mr. Dana W. Bennett 

- Mr. E. J. Loring 



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Scene IX. The Raising of the First Flag 
on Prospect Hill^ January \y 1776 

In charge of Mrs. Isaac Rich, Mrs. J. Abbott Clark, and 
Mrs. J. Frank Wellington 

CHARACTERS 



Miss Marion Gooding 
" Grace Simonds 
'' Josephine Kimball 
" Margaret Lakin 
** Florence Eaton 
" Gertrude Niles 

Mr. Arthur Cushman 
** Curtis Fairbanks 
** Willie McDonald 

George Washington - 



Mr. Ralph Reynolds 

** Frank E. Fitts, Jr. 

" Arthur H. Gooding 

*^ Harry OTeary 

*' Wallace Hubbard 

*' Wilder Sturtevant 

** Frank Hamblin 

** Stanley Tead 

" Ernest Kimball 

- Mr. Julian P. Twitchell 



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PHOTOGRAPHER 

352 Washington Street 
"BOSTON 

We produce all the best and ne-west things in photographic nvork. If you 
<want the latest and best, gi<ve us a call, and <Tve think you %>ill gi've us an 
order. Place your orders for Christmas photos early and al?oid the rush 

A. F. CARPENTER 



OLD STAND 


STORAGE 


GROCER ES 


Storage for Furniture, 


OF ALL KINDS 


Pianos, Sleio^hs, Trunks, 
Cases, etc 


Cbe Best Butter in tl)e market 


Cor. Soinerville Ave. and Park $t. 


First-Class Trade Solicited 


someRUTEce 


..Pure Coffees and Teas.. 


IN SEPARATE ROOMS 


At Lowest Prices 




FLOUR A SPECIALTY 


With locked doors, neat and con- 
venient 




Parties breaking up housekeep- 


IRo. 522 SomerviUe Hvenue 


ing- will do well to make early 
application 



R. nOLLINQ/ &■ CO. 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



€lectric, 0a$, and Combinatioii fixtures 

Tine Camps and Shades, fireplace Turnisbings 

523-525 -^ Washington -^ Street, •»« Boston 

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Scene X* The American Flag Dance 



In^charge of Mrs. Geo. Stephens, Jr., Mrs. W. F. Watters, and 

Mrs. Williston Lincoln 



DANCERS 



Miss Anna B. West 
'* Martha L. Hale 
'* Mabel Paul 
** Bertha P. Paul 
** Alice Sartwell 
** Gertrude Hall 
" Helen D. Carr 

Mr. Francis J. Brine 

Solo Dance 



Mr. George H. Galpin 
** G. N. Buckingham 
'' J. Frost Barrett 
** Philip Darling 
** Irving Wetherbee 
** Gifford Currier 
" Arthur Kidder 
*' A. J. Rorke 
Miss Alice B. Edmands 



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Scene XI» The Arrival of Margaret Winthrop 

and John Eliot 

In charge of Mrs. Geo. O. Proctor, Mrs. E. B. West, and 
Mrs. A. A. Gibson 

CHARACTERS 

Miss Marion West Miss Helen Higgins 

" Gertrude O'Brion Mr. J. P. Belliveau 
" Ethel Butterworth '' N. P. Reed 
*' Mabel Proctor '' W. H. Burgess 



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Rand House &■ GreoC Elm. Somerville Ave. 
Opposite Park 5t House Detvoujmed 1069. 



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Established 1838 



Incorporated 1895 



J.T.GLINESCO. 

EDWARD GLINES, Treasurer 

WHOLESALE DEALERS, 
IMPORTERS, ROAST- 
ERS OF^jH^^Jtji^ 

COFFEE 



No. 50 INDIA STREET, - BOSTON, MASS. 

Telephone 2296 Boston 



aUIRESfAMO^mAMS 

Are Delicate and Delicious. 



They make the daintiest sandwiches for 
<^Ms:^liU teas and luncheons in the house or 




fj|y jni,.'1fy^>^^_ out-of-doors. Carefully cured, they 
-^ keep moist, sweet and refreshing. 



.^>, ^ Our '* ready-cooked hams " are a great 

^, convemetice when you'' re away from home. 



JOHN P. SQUIRE & CO., Boston. 



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ARRIVAL OF MARGARET WESTTHROP— Continord 



Miss Grace M. Howes 
** Grace Proctor 
** Bessie Wisdom 
" Hattie Wisdom 

Margaret Winthrop 
Governor Winthrop 
John Eliot 



Mr. W. A. Colcord 
" R D. Cooke 
** Harold Harlow 

Miss Ethel Lincoln 

Mr. H. P. Bradford 

- Mr. Walter S. Sawyer 



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Scene XII. A Colonial Tea Party 

In charge of Mrs. L. V. Niles, Mrs. G. W. Simpson, and 
Mrs. Elbridge S. Brooks 



CHARACTERS 

Mr. Charles D. Elliot 

" Charles F. Simes 

** Frank W. Marden 

** Frank A. Ware 

** S. A. Carvill 
Mrs. George S. Minot 

Soloist 



Mrs. Charles D. Elliot 
** Charles F. Simes 
" Frank W. Marden 
** Frank A. Ware 
** S. A. Carvill 

Mr, Lon F. Brine 



'Jie\e\»\voue SS'^O "^oom SOT 

"NJDe are '3\.^eu\s ^ov \\\e 

SeTvdi \qix a YfvaV otdeT 

*5. S. CVexve^ Co. 



"Kexw S\wdiVO 




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\Ba& operved ow 

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Scene XIIL The Flags of the Nations 

In charge of Mrs. E. C. DoIIiver, Mrs. F. L. Dunne, and 
Mrs. G. W. Freund 

FLAG BEARERS 

America ------ Miss MoIIie Edmands 

Russia ------ Miss Helen Watters 

Germany - - Miss Frances Frost and Mr. W. Pierson 

Italy - - - - - - - Miss Florence Green 

Spain - - Miss Helen Bradshaw and Mr. J. Nichols 

France -_-____ Miss Edna Jones 

Holland _ - _ Miss Alice Dunne and Mr. F. Rice 

Sweden ------- Miss Mattie Bell 

Great Britain - Miss Ruth Benton and Mr. C. J. Nichols 



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Scene XIV* The Children's Quilting Party 

In charge of Mrs. Edward Glines, Mrs. S. M. Pennock, and 
Miss Gerta M. Colby 

CHARACTERS 
Miss Jeannette A. Dawson Mr. Albion M. Boothby 
*' Marcella Kendall ** Elmer L. Brine 

** Nathalie E. Kinsman ** Arthur F. Gooding 
** Mildred F. Lincoln *' Percy J. Holmes 

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Adams House, Formerly Standing on Bow^ Street 



QUILTING PARTY— Continued 



Miss M. Jeannette Pearson Mr. Guy P. Moses 



44 



Ina G. Thompson 

Florence Kceler 

Moses 

Bertha E. Brown 

Helen Higgins 



Soloist 



J. Robert Nichols 
Bowen Tufts 
R. H. Kenniston 
Dorothy Crane 

Bessie Densmore 



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Scene XV* A Dancing School of Y^ Olden Time 

In charge of Mrs. Henry A. Robbins, Mrs. L. Roger Wentworth^ 
and Mrs. Arthur C. Whitney 



Miss Alice Miller 

** Louise Whitney 

** Marjorie Loring 

** Dorothy Joyce 

*' Isabel Wild 

*' Amy B. Wood 

" Amy Hubbard 

** Gladys Hastings 

** Dorothy Crane 

** Helen Higgins 

*' Lucy Robbins 

** Spinney 



DANCERS 

Master Carl Gleason 
** Nat Rice 



Prescott Wild 
Arthur Corwin 
Harold Taylor 
Freddie Westing 
Horton Pushec 
Charles Pope 
Moses 

Wright Parker 
Brewer 



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ClK new B««t for m«itien 

$ariori$ $2.50 

j» EXCLUSIVE^SALEjtFOR^SOMERVILLE ^ 

F. W. GILBERT 

36 UNION SQUARE 




THREE NEW BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS 

THB TRUE STORY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, the American statesman. Told for boys and girls by Elwidgb 

S.Brooks. One vol., 4to, profusely illustrated. $1.50. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company. 

" We doubt whether a better biography for the reading of boys has ever been written than the True Story of 
Benjamin Franklin ' by Elbridge S. Brooks."— TA* Christian Endeavor World. 
A SON OF THE REVOLUTION; A Story of the Days of Burr's Conspiracy. ByELBRiDGKS. Bbooks. Illustrated 
by Frank T. Merrill. One vol , i2mo, cloth, $1.50. Boston: W. A. Wilde & Co. ,, r~i • ,- 

" The story is full of patriotic inspiration and of valuable lessons for young American citizens. CArutiam 
Work, New York. 
THE MASTER OF THE STRONG HEARTS: A Story of Custer's Last Rally. By Elbridgb S. Brooks. Illus- 
trated by W. M. Carey. One vol., umo, cloth, $1.50. New York: E. P. Button & Co. 

" A rarely good boy's b"ok." — The Evangelist. 
" A complete and satisfactory account of the tragic Custer campaign."— .5k«^ Miner. 

FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS 



SIMON CONNOR 

ZLailor anb ITmporter 

HILL BUILDING, UNION SQUARE 

SomerviUe 



ESTABLISHED IN 1832 



T. W. BRYANT 

27 WOOD STREET 

J. E. BRYANT C. F. BRYANT 

SA GRANT STREET 62 RICHDALE AVE. 

jfuneral ^ 2)irector6 

170 School street, Somcrpille is Jlustln Street, CDarlestowi 

Telephone No. 123-2 Telephone No. 41-a 

87 



Scene XVL The Miniature Navy 



In charge of Mrs. C. F. Simes, Mrs. F. A. Ware, and 
Mrs. E. G. Glines 

CHARACTERS 
Miss Florence Darling Master Everett Stone 



Edith Winn 
Gladys Loring 
Susie Richie 
Frances Paon 
Leila Stevens 
Helen Barker 
Alice Lyon 
Cora Taylor 
Lucy Sears 
Sadie Whitaker 
Eva Richardson 



Louis Lombard 
Louis Keyne 
Ned French 
Ernest Ware 
Howard Miller 
Charlie Parks 
Robert Macomber 
Myron Lewis 
Harold Dix 
Charlie Russ 



The Colonial Booth 

In charge of Mrs. John F. Ayer, Mrs. David L. Maulsby^ 
Miss Annie G. Stover, and Mrs. John S. Emerson 



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John T. nicKerson go., Bost on, mass. 

"YE GOODE OLDE TYMES" 

How often the desire tinds expression that these "g-oode 
olde tymes " mig'ht be with us ag-ain. For then it was that 
every article was sold on its merit; that integ-rity was the 
watchword of the merchant; that adulteration was un- 
known. And j'et, the fact is, some of to-day's articles of 
merchandise will measure fully up to anything- known in 
the past. As an instance, take 

^BLUE BRAND^ ALL-LEAF LARD 

Here you have an all-leaf lard, the only ALt,-LEAF lard, 
in fact, whose superior was never known. Here is purity, 
integrity, sterling worth in all the beauty of its excellence. 
Here, in brief, are all the qualities so characteristic of "ye 
goode olde tymes." 

Many of those housewives who used to try out their own 
leaf lard — and their number was legion — because they 
couldn't secure the desired excellence in any other way, 
now buy "Blue Brand" All-Leaf Lard, because it only 
supplies the quality they desire. Could greater deference be paid to its excellence? 

Consult your dealer on this subject. Quite likely he handles "Blue Brand " All- 
Leaf Lard. If he does, he'll extol its virtues, "for none know it but to praise it." But 
if he doesn't keep it, get a pail of some other dealer. Give it a thorough trial in your 
kitchen, demonstrate its worth, and you'll then be as enthusiastic in its advocacy as a 
host of others. " Blue Brand " labels are so distinctive (see illustration) that you won't 
mistake this lard for anj' other kind. In 3, 5, and 10-lb. pails. Prepared only by 

BOSTON PACKING & PROVISION CO, 

77 and 79 South Market Street, BOSTON 
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The Puritan Booth 



In charge of Mrs. Oren C. Sanborn, Mrs. J. Q. Lowell, Mrs. C. E. 
Parks, Mrs. J. O. Hayden, and Miss Katherine W. Wood 

ASSISTANTS 
Miss Susie Vincent Miss Bessie L. Duddy 



** Martha Vincent 

** Edna Gushing 

** Marion Stiles 

** A. Sleeper 

** Bessie Burrage 

** Alice Vincent 

** Grace Simonds 



Bessie Albee 
Dora Lowell 
Ida Remick 
Alice Cooper 
Ida Godfrey 
Cordelia A. Foster 



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-/ /- ^^ .{f^'-^cL^^^ ^C^r/t^ needs Endoivment or Life Insur- 
f^ ance and can get more for his 

45 Milk Street, Room 37, Boston money in the a^ e^ «^ »^ j^ e^ a^ 

North^ooestem Mutual Life Insurance Company 

c4ssets, $t09,22t,204A8 Liabilities. $85,291 A7 4,09 
Surplus. $23,929,730,09 

G. LESLIE NICHOLS 
^^^ARCHITECT—^ 

MASON BUILDING 

BOSTON, - - MASS. 

W. L STEVENS, D. D. S. 

2)enti6t 

2 HILL BUILDING, UNION SQUARE 
SOMERVILLE 

CATERING FANCY BAKING 

C C. FARRINGTON 

45 SUMMER STREET 

Ice Cream and Fancy Ices furnished in any quantity for any occasion ^ Choice 
Wedding Cake to order J- ^tls and Bread for suppers, parties, etc. a specialty 

91 




The Somerville 
Historical Society 

Appeals to the people to assist them in preserv- 
ing objects of historic value, and to prevent 
those that now exist from being destroyed. 
Will you help us by joining the Society ? The 
cost is only one dollar per year. 

The Society is incorporated, and will re- 
ceive, hold, and preserve loans or gifts, and 
hand them down to future generations. We 
doubt if there is another spot in this country so 
sacred as this of ours in the eyes of all lovers of 
liberty. Let us collect and catalogue all the 
scattered data of the early times and teach our 
children the value of their inheritance. 






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Wmrrr Hah- 

Tufts CoiiiqI'* 



LoniK) and Pbipps /Ircbiteets 

Excnanijc Buildino B"Stoi) 



LORING &> PHIPPS, Architects 

EXCHANGE BUILDING, 53 STATE STREET. BOSTON 

Geo. F. Loring, 78 Hig-hland Ave.. Somerville Sanford Phipps. Watertowu 



EDW. H. BAKER, Prest. WM. A. HUNNEWELL. Treas. 




Main Office and Wharves, 



A^/fiDGtm 



157 Main Street 

Cam BRIDGEPORT 
Boston Office, - - 20 EXCHANGE PLACE 



BAKER-HUNNEWELL CO. 



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Contents 



Frontispiece. Oliver Tufts House on Sycamore Street 
Photographed by B. D» Bourne 

Officers of Somerville Historical Society . - _ - 7 

Festival Committees --------g 

Membership of Somerville Historical Society - - - - JO 

The Somerville Historical Society - - -CD. Elliot 14 

Miles Standish and the Plymouth Explorers - C. D. Elliot J 6 

An Old Colonial Mansion - Drawn by E. J. Loring J 8 

Gov. John Winthrop and His Ten Hills Farm, C. D. Elliot 19 

Timothy Tufts House on Elm Street - - - - - 22 

Somerville in the Revolution - - - -CD. Elliot 23 

The Sampler - - - - _ _ F. M. Hawes 27 

A Colonial Doorway - - - Drawn by E. J. Loring 29 

John Mallet, the Old Miller - - Mrs. L. F. A. Maulsby 30 

Gen. Charles Lee and the Old Tufts House, John S. Hayes 32 

Portrait of Gen. Charles Lee, 

From Drawing made by Barham Rwskbrookc 

On Prospect Hill ----- Sam Walter Foss 35 

Old Unitarian Church on Highland Avenue, 

Drawing by E. W. Hamilton - - - - - 37 

The Flag of Our Union _ _ - John S. Hayes 38 

This article was from the able pen of the late John S. Hayes, 

but through an inadvertence his name was 

omitted as the author 

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CONTENTS — Continued 



Rev. Anson Titus 42 



- 46 

W. P. Jones 47 



Maj.-Gen. John Paterson 

Map — Part of American Lines in Siege of Boston^ 
Drawn by C. D. Elliot . - _ 

Prospect Hill and Its Early History 

The Hasty Pudding Party on Prospect Hill^ 

From the original picture by Henry Bacon^ Paris, formerly 
a resident of Somerville 

When Lafayette Came to Town - - - E. S. Brooks 

Winter Hill and Winter Hill Station on Lowell R. R. from 
Central Hill, 1880 

Old Memories of Early Days - - - M. P. Lowe 

Somerville in the Civil War - - - J, S. Hayes 

Ye Little Old Schoolhouse - - - M. J. Wendell 

Cast of Scenes ------___ 



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